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...Sprawled on both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge and D'Best Furniture Store. Why? "It's classy," explains a Filipino. "It's French...
Such trees as fragrant pine and plants such as pungent sage produce the "blue haze" that occurs during summer, even over relatively uninhabited areas of land. They emit molecular substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...
...SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead plays Madame Fragrant, "the world's greatest authority on exotic perfumes," to Skelton's man from the gas company looking for a leak. Repeat...
Reduce it to a fragrant dust...
There is quite a ritual to the occasion. First to come to the Ginza each after noon are the icemen, their saws slashing through great frozen blocks destined for dilution in tumblers of whisky. Next are the fragrant wagons of the noodle vendors, trailing plumes of steam in the neon sunset. Then come the girls-300,000 of them-to work in the 3,000 clubs of Tokyo's six sakaba (drinking quarters). Wispy-bearded Santa Clauses, a legacy of the American occupation, parade in sandwich boards that proclaim the virtues (or lack of them) of such establishments...